Sannah

Hi everyone, I am a nursing student in the Netherlands. I currently am working on a paper that focusses on palliative care and how it is provided in my workplace. I work for a mental health institute that provides care to all walks of life, but specifically in an inpatient home for the elderly who are diagnosed with mental illnesses and therefor are not welcome in the 'standard' elderly homes. In my research on how palliative care is being provided in my workspace, there have been multiple struggles. Mainly with resources not being available and collegaes not having enough experience and schooling, which lowers the care that we can give to patients. I am now very interested to hear if there are any nurses out there who also work in long term homes for the eldery with mental health issues and how the palliative care is being designed. Do you have the facilities and the opportunities to learn and follow schooling, or are there rules in place that state a patient in need of palliative care must be placed in a different institute to receive the right kind of treatment? I would like to use your knowledge in my reccomendations to my workplace in how we can move forward and how to better take care of our patients. Thank you so much if you are willing to take the time to respond!